CANAAN – Andrew Jack likes to show guests a picture of the moment when he first knew he wanted to create Windsor chairs for a living. In the foreground of the photo is noted chair-maker Curtis ...

One's favorite chair might be the sad-looking old lounger that one's spouse longs to give away, but it's just too comfortable to be replaced. It might be the battle-scarred wooden desk chair that's ...

"I can't think of another household object from the 18th century that hasn't ever gone out of style," Thomas Michie says. "If you go to Ikea today, they're there. To me, that's the sign of a design ...

Furniture maker Terry West’s 15-by-18-foot workshop may seem modest by contemporary woodworkers’ standards. But early American artisans turned out countless chairs and tables in even smaller ...

Jeffersonville — Windsor chairs inspire fervent fanaticism among connoisseurs, endless Web sites, even a tribute from the Smithsonian. When I ask master chair maker and instructor Peter Galbert of ...

You can’t keep a good chair-maker down, it seems. Four and a half years after D.R. Dimes & Co. folded under the weight of changing public tastes, closing the Northwood custom-furniture business that ...

George works wonders with wood. He builds chairs in his shop beside his home in Winston-Salem. Most of George’s chairs are built to order. He crafts each chair from logs of wood into finely polished ...

Colonial furniture-makers started copying the chairs, and by 1750 Windsor's style had been re-interpreted, becoming lighter and smaller. And in the spirit of a young democracy, it became a chair of ...

For nearly 300 years, the humble Windsor chair, with its saddle-carved seat and spindle back, has been one of the most consistently popular furniture styles around. In his Towson-area basement, David ...

“I can’t think of another household object from the 18th Century that hasn’t ever gone out of style,” Thomas Michie says. “If you go to IKEA today, they’re there. To me, that’s the sign of a design ...